Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]
Claude’s Cycles: Claude Opus 4.6 solves a problem posed by Don Knuth [pdf]
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The beauty and terror of modding Windows
Have you ever heard of Windhawk? It’s a cult-favorite Windows tweaking tool I’ve been dabbling with for years, and I’ve had readers ask me about it. If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities — on Reddit, in forums, and elsewhere — you’ll find lots of people chatting about Windhawk and sharing how they use it […]
Show HN: I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler’s lost wakeups
Why I built this: I was dealing with a really annoying bug in my M:N scheduler. Under heavy load, throughput would just flatline to zero. I ran ASAN and TSAN, but they came up empty because no memory was actually corrupted. It turned out to be a ”lost wakeup”—coroutines were stuck forever waiting on a […]
Show HN: Open-Source Article 12 Logging Infrastructure for the EU AI Act
EU legislation (which affects UK and US companies in many cases) requires being able to truly reconstruct agentic events. I’ve worked in a number of regulated industries off & on for years, and recently hit this gap. We already had strong observability, but if someone asked me to prove exactly what happened for a specific […]
AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE
The incidents occurred on Sunday morning, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) saying at the time that ”objects” had hit a data centre in the UAE, creating ”sparks and fire”. Also on Sunday, AWS said it was investigating power and connectivity issues at a facility in Bahrain.
Arm’s Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance
Desktop and laptop use cases demand high single threaded performance across a large variety of workloads. Creating CPU cores to meet those demands is no easy task. AMD and Intel traditionally dominated this high performance segment using high clocked, high throughput cores with large out-of-order engines to absorb latency. Arm traditionally optimized for low power […]
Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies
A Reporter Aloft Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies A Reporter Aloft Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe? By Burkhard Bilger March 2, 2026 Fierce storms and erratic winds have grown increasingly common, and clear-air turbulence could more than double by […]
I’ve been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year
Back in June I wrote a post on trying out GrapheneOS. I was going to wait a year before doing an update, but two things happened recently: First, the big news I’ve been waiting for: GrapheneOS announced they are partnering with motorola to offer a non-pixel device! Second, Pixel 9 Pro Fold decided to implode. […]
Optimizing Recommendation Systems with JDK’s Vector API
Netflix Technology Blog 9 min read · 2 days ago — By Harshad Sane Ranker is one of the largest and most complex services at Netflix. Among many things, it powers the personalized rows you see on the Netflix homepage, and runs at an enormous scale. When we looked at CPU profiles for this service, […]